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<h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">Building DITA output with Java command line</h1>


<div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">The DITA Open Toolkit release 1.0.2 or above provides a command
     line interface as an alternative for users with little knowledge of Ant
to      use the toolkit easily.</p>

<div class="section"><h2 class="title sectiontitle">Running example</h2>              
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 <li class="li">Change into the DITA Open Toolkit installation directory.</li>

 <li class="li">On the command line, enter the following command: <p class="p"><tt class="ph tt">java -jar   
        lib/dost.jar /i:samples/sequence.ditamap /outdir:out            /transtype:xhtml</tt></p>
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 <li class="li">In this example, the '<em class="ph i">/</em>' symbol preceded by a          space is
the separator for each parameter.</li>

<li class="li">Currently, the          parameters <em class="ph i">/filter</em>, <em class="ph i">/ftr</em>, <em class="ph i">/hdr</em>,
and <em class="ph i">/hdf</em>          require an absolute path.</li>

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